Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

An awesome book by Roald Dahl that may sound familiar, this book is the one to read ABOVE ALL OTHERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!☺☻☺☻
Poor Charlie Bucket and his family are beginning to starve since they are so poor and at the wrong time too, because Willie Wonka is giving out 5 golden tickets, placed randomly in some of his chocolate bars. Because they are poor, they are going to have to waste significant money (at least for them) on a chocolate bar.

Charlie only got one chocolate bar for his birthday and not one golden ticket was in there. I felt sad because I didn't want him to not have one. But he finds a dollar in the street and buys two more candy bars at some candy shop and in the second one he finds a golden ticket, by complete coincidence!

The other 4 kids to find one were not poor kids and were generally pretty well spoiled. First was Augustus Gloop; (these are pretty good names!) he just bought a whole lot of chocolate. Second there is Veruca Salt who was a really spoiled brat! Real real bad! Her father got a zillion boxes of Wonka chocolates and he said to the peanut shelling girls at his peanut shelling factory, "Instead of shelling peanuts you can shell the wrappers of these Wonka candy bars!" Next there was Violet Beauregard who just chewed gum too much and, as I say, "She's a gum-chewing-bum!" Fourth was Mike Teevee who didn't explain much of the story to the news people because he watched too much TV--get it? TeeVee?

Charlie got his ticket just in time--Wonka would have brought the other four in without a fifth child if the last ticket wasn't found. They all go on the tour. My favorite parts of the tour were each of the parts where the four kids (excluding Charlie) get tricked into probably their fate. They each have a big flaw in them that gets them stuck down in Wonka's big machine's guts! For example, the gum-chewing-bum Violet Beauregard chews some experimental gum that hasn't been completed yet and turns into a giant blueberry! Poor thing. By the end of the tour, only Charlie was left (as you may have expected or knew). The result is that he gets to live in the factory along with the rest of his family for his whole remaining life! Charlie is going to take over for Wonka completely when he is old enough to do so.

I don't have a favorite part of this book, but in a good way! It was totally awesome! Some of the things I liked were the Oompa Loompa's (Wonka's secret workers who make sure no spies from other chocolate factories come in) songs, and some of Wonka's delicious inventions. I liked Willy Wonka himself--he would be the guy it would be really fun to hang out with.

There is a sequel to this book called "Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator" and I think I will really, really like it.